Awards

2026 Emmy Award Nominee for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series (Paradise, “Exodus”)
2025 Black Reel Awards Nominee for Outstanding Directing in a Drama Series (Paradise, “Exodus”)
2025 ASTRA Television Awards Nominee for Best Directing in a Drama Series (Matlock, “I Was That, Too”)
2022 NAACP Image Award Nominee for Outstanding Directing in a Drama Series (True Story, Finale, “Like Cain Did Abel”)
2022 Black Reel Awards Nominee for Outstanding Directing, TV Movie/Limited Series (The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey)
2021 NAACP Image Award Winner for Outstanding Directing in a Drama Series (Star Trek:Picard, Pilot: “Remembrance”)
2019 ReFrame Rise Director
2019 Variety Inclusion Impact Honoree
2015 NAACP Image Award Nomination for Outstanding Directing in a Drama Series (Criminal Minds, “The Edge of Winter”)
2013 The Parenthood producers chose my episode to represent the series for Best Drama Series Emmy consideration
2012 NBC/Universal’s Directing Initiative Fellow
2012 HBO-DGA Directing Fellowship Finalist
2005 Emerging Filmmaker Award, Cine Noir Festival
2004 Directing Fellow of the Berlin Talent Campus
2004 Outstanding Director Award, GAFFERS (Short Film: “A Single Rose”)
2002 AFI Directing Workshop for Women
2001 Honorable Mention Writers Digest Screenplay Competition (“Block Party”)
2000 Featured in “Spotlight” section of premiere issue of Screentalk magazine
2000 Semi-Finalist Scriptapalooza Screenplay Competition (“Jail Bird aka Can’t Get Arrested”)
1999 Fellow of IFP Screenwriters Lab
1999 Honorable Mention Writers Digest Screenplay Competition (“Miss Ella”)
1997 Fellow of the USC/Guy Hanks & Marvin Miller Screenwriting Program

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